Found in Space
Mar 26, 2012•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
If someone asks where you get off, you can now respond with precision. Satellites and computers spit out coordinates accurate to a few paces. And digital maps stand the Copernican principle on its head – putting you at the center of everything (how does it feel?).
Find out how today’s maps are shuffling our world view. Also, how does a rat navigate a maze without GPS? Hear of the plotting that goes on in that tiny rodent brain.
Plus, mapping the universe and pinpointing just where we are in cosmic time – lucky for us, human evolution is right on schedule.
Guests:
Josh Winn - Astronomer, MIT
David Redish - Neuroscientist, University of Minnesota
Mario Livio - Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute and author of Is God a Mathematician?
Mike Goodchild - Professor of Geography, Center for Spatial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
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